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Collaboration Poster with Gig Poster Artist Clint Wilson

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This past weekend I went to see Cirque du Soleil’s show entitled “Dralion” in Houston at the Toyota Center. I have never seen a Cirque du Soleil show live, I’ve only seen clips on the Discovery Channel or TLC. It was fairly impressive.

For the show Clint Wilson, an Austin-based gig poster artist (who recently got published in the Random House book “GigPosters vol. 2”), and I designed a promotional art print. We screen printed 125 posters and also did a run of 10 in a red/gold variant. These guys will be for sale on Nakatomiinc.com after the show is finished running.

They liked this poster soo much they want us to work with them on more shows! : D

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Clint Wilson’s site: http://clintprints.wordpress.com/

The GigPoster book: http://gigposters.com/book/

Nakatomi’ site: http://www.nakatomiinc.com/home/

Primary Colour Tapestry Cup

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I finished working on this fused glass piece two days ago. Its called a tapestry cup. I was busy Wednesday night adding the final touches. I’ve been told I need to see about getting this into Dwell magazine.

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I’m not really looking to do any custom orders yet, maybe sometime in the near future when I have my own kiln big enough to do work like this.

I love this color scheme. I made this piece to match a set of dishes and cups I have from the 1970s by Studio Nova.

E.A.S.T. (East Austin Studio Tour) at D & J Blueline

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This is the first year that my new place of employment, D & J Blueline, is going to be a venue/event in the East Austin Studio Tour! This is my third year being a part of E.A.S.T., I’d taken part in E.A.S.T. 2009 and 2010. For those of you who do not know, D & J Blueline is a print shop on 1000 E. 7th St.,  Austin, TX, that specializes in printing bluelines and blacklines for architects, vellums for silkscreen artists, and high quality reproduction giclee’ prints for artists. We will feature several artists selling their work; Pat Taylor, Chris Chappell, Darren Minke, Teresa Avini, Rebecca Byrd Bretz, L. Marie Rockey, Clint Wilson, Jonathan Hubbell, and myself. Henry Gonzales from the South Austin Popular Culture Center will be hanging out telling his crazy stories (dude was there when Stevie Ray Vaughan died) and working on a mural he’s been doing for us. Chris Chappell and a friend of his will be setting up easels out front and painting live.

For those of you unfamiliar with E.A.S.T., here is a link to their site: http://www.eastaustinstudiotour.com/

We are going to be site E12 and our ad in the catalog is on page 357. They used one of my prints for the picture for our site! huzzah! I’m published. Its my print with the snail, entitled “Nomadic Intent” (Crispin Glover owns an original print of it!).

E.A.S.T. has gotten huge here in Austin, when it first started it only had 35 artist studios and now it includes well over 200 artists and 150 studios and galleries.

We will be showcasing artwork and doing demonstrations the weekends of Nov. 12th and Nov. 19th. Our address again is 1000 East 7th Street, Austin, TX. We will be open 11am-6pm both weekends.  We hope to see you there!

“Quentin vs Coen” Traveling Exhibit Recap

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The art show tribute to the films of the Coen Bros. and Quentin Tarantino opening premiere at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City had a line going down the stairs and around the block with people waiting for an hour and a half to get inside. After the NY premiere, the show traveled  to San Francisco, displaying at Spoke Art Gallery and then wrapping up in early October at the Beyond Eden Art Fair in Los Angeles where they showcased artwork by prominent contemporary artists. I submitted two soft sculpture/fabric art pieces that were representations of weapons from the films of these directors. The idea was taking a deadly and otherwise frightening object and fabricating it out of materials normally associated with pleasant, tactile experiences.

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The captive bolt stunner device from “No Country For Old Men”, that’s the apparatus Anton Chigurh carries around with him busting locks and skulls (it is supposed to be used for euthanizing livestock), inspired me to create the piece entitled “Sweet Deal” which is presented in a point-of-sale experience. Its made out of felt and cotton jersey material. The other soft sculpture entitled “The Half-Breed”, is a soft sculpture replica of Gogo Yubari’s weighted chain weapon from “Kill Bill”. After doing some homework on ancient Japanese and Chinese weaponry, it appears that the weapon Tarantino crafted for Gogo was a combination of the kusari-fundo weapon (think longer nun chuks) of Japan and the meteor hammer (resembling a mace on a chain) from China. This soft sculpture was displayed as if in the armory section of a history museum complete with informative plaque. This piece was created using crochet, knitting, wet felting, and sewing techniques. This show got wondrous press through several magazines, newpapers, and well over 80 websites/blogs. I have a couple links in the “Press” section of my site if you want to read up more about this show. I heard from the curator that the Coen Bros. made an appearance and Frances McDormand pointed out my piece “Sweet Deal” to them, and they loved it! I don’t think Quentin Tarantino made it to the show… I heard something about his lawyers checking us out though.

Kenneth the Spider Puppet

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I finished this little guy a while back. It is for the webseries “Seth Martin and Friends”. There has been some talk of getting a PBS series. He’s a felt and poly-foam, muppet-style hand puppet. This was my first polyfoam puppet I designed and made myself.

Here’s SMAF’s youtube site: http://www.youtube.com/user/SethMartinFriends

Here’s a link to the episode featuring Kenneth (the sound is mixed a bit low, you may need to turn the volume up a bit):

http://www.youtube.com/user/SethMartinFriends#p/u/4/YwTR-lbcX2E

Photo Courtesy of Craig P. Johnson.

“Bad Dads II” Exhibit Submission

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My first Word Press post! Hizzah!

I’m going to San Francisco next weekend for the second annual Bad Dads Exhibit, which is an art show tribute to Wes Anderson’s films. Here is a link to some footage from last year’s show! http://vimeo.com/16387278

For this show I’ve entered some marionettes of Margot Tennenbaum and Mordecai.

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